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Aaliyah Rugg & Milica Cosic

'Lovely' headteacher who thought she pulled a muscle on holiday dies of bowel cancer

A mum who was told she had months left to live after complaining of pain on the side of her body has died from bowel cancer.

Family and friends have now paid loving tributes to the "inspirational" headteacher who they say had the "most welcoming smile", reports the Liverpool Echo.

Ros Atkins, 43, was on holiday in Scotland with her husband John, 42, and their six-year-old daughter Maggie, when she started experiencing pain in the right side of her body, like a stitch, which she thought could have been a pulled muscle.

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